Happy 4th Birthday Hannah!

I cannot believe that Hannah turns 4 today. I also cannot believe that she is sick with a low fever and I am sitting at home with her today while she is sick celebrating her birthday. She had her big princess party with her fellow princesses and princes on Sunday and then woke up with a fever Monday morning, which since then has remained low grade...enough to let you know you are sick but not enough to keep you down so she really doesn't think she is that sick and wants to do things, but we have to keep reminding her to rest. Ughhh!

Here are a few picks from the princess mania party...

The birthday princess...


Every princess has to do some swinging...


Some other Snow Whites that showed up to the party:




Having some fun...


And getting into a little mischief..


Having lunch...I set up little kids tables on the deck with table cloths and flowers in the center...it was cute...


All of Hannah & Samantha's cousins were there...Hannah was so excited and this was the first time they were all together as a group so we had to take a picture. It turned out really well!



Here is the royal group (with a few missing due to illness or the fact that they just did not want to be in the picture...


The fancy princess cakes...that's right we had two b/c Hannah wanted a round cake and so we needed to get two to feed everyone, plus the princess that went on top took up all the space on top of one so we had to get 2 to write on the other one...





And finally the present mob...believe it or not I am in there...somewhere...


The royal guests also did some decorating of sashes that I made for each of them with their name on it (you can see them in some of the above pictures) and they decorated crowns...all in all the arts in crafts were a big hit, so I am glad.

At then end, Hannah was trashed (perhaps her illness was already beginning to creep up on her)and so she laid down on the couch with her new princess blanket, opened up her ballerina music box and closed her eyes listening to the music...the princess needed her beauty sleep...


When Hannah gets back to school she will celebrate with her classmates and I will make a cupcake cake so the celebrations will still continue when the princess is feeling better.

I still cannot believe Hannah has gone from:

1st Birthday:


2nd Birthday:


3rd Birthday:


To the princess that she is today. :) Time flies when you are having fun. And we get to go through it all again with little Samantha. By the way Samantha had a great time at the party too...especially with the balloons...